Bug#606550: libflite1: flite in speech-dispatcher, speech cuts out early

[Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com>]

Package: libflite1
Version: 1.4-release-2
Severity: important

I just received the update of speech-dispatcher 0.7-6 in Debian Squeeze.
Yay, flite module now works!
However, there is a nasty issue when using flite in speech-dispatcher.
The last second of so of text-to-speech gets chopped off, and I can't hear
the end of what the voice is saying.

My complete /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf looks like this:

LogLevel  3
LogDir  "default"
DefaultVolume 100
AudioOutputMethod "alsa"
AddModule "flite"        "sd_flite"     "flite.conf"
AddModule "dummy"         "sd_dummy"      ""
DefaultModule flite
Include "/etc/speech-dispatcher/clients/*.conf"
Include "clients/*.conf"

To reproduce,
  /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher start
then
  spd-say "testing"
it will sound like "test" instead of "testing".



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libflite1 depends on:
ii  libasound2                    1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-7   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

libflite1 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libflite1 suggests:
ii  alsa-base                  1.0.23+dfsg-2 ALSA driver configuration files

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